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I stumbled across Untangle one day and thought we don't have a web-filter and if the price was right. This project had many ups and downs but was fun. Our network is quite spread out and finding the right place for Untangle to fit in was a bit challenging but once it got rolling it worked like a champ. A few of the fun things I learned was that it broke GPO's to remote sites. Fixed by increasing the PingBufferSize. When we implemented VLANs in 2010, Untangle did not support them. We found a work around by adding the VLAN IP addresses as aliases on the external interface and voila it started working until 2012 and we were forced to find an alternative that natively supported VLANs. Over the course of three years Untangle was installed on several workstations and finally a full blown server. It was a fun project and sad day to take it out of production but hopefully now that Untangle supports VLANs we may be able to go back...one day.